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Dolphin Browser, “one of the biggest successful
stories on Android” according to TechCrunch is now narrating an even more
brilliant story with the official launch of the first ever
dual-engine smartphone browser for Android devices in the planet in Beijing
yesterday.

Better Engine, Better Performance

Yang Yongzhi, former Microsoft-er who co-founded the browser
vendor in 2010 debuted the latest version (8.0) of Dolphin
Browser in its new office located in the 768 Innovation Campus of
Beijing.

On top of its existing offerings such as multiple tabs, gesture
browsing, Flipboard-esque webzine, handy sidebars, addons, voice
control and so on, the new Dolphin integrated the Chrome-based
Webkit rendering engine to complement the original webkit engine
adopted by Android’s stock browser. Liu Tiefeng, CTO of the
Beijing, Wuhan and San Francisco-based company explained that
although both are originally built on Webkit the open source
browser engine, the engine used by the stock browser isn’t on a
par with the Chrome Webkit in terms of performance and HTML5
support, that’s why the new browser’s speed could be up to 30%
faster.

Rendering engine and the browser itself are critical to the web
surfing experience on smartphone. A lot of smartphone’s hardware
specification is as strong as a three-year-old PC, how come the
browsing experience isn’t as smooth as it should be? Liu raised
the question. He went on and explained that one of the major
reasons is that the hardware’s growth outpaced the progress of
browser software.

Reflecting on the issue, the new Dolphin introduced the sharper
rendering engine for a better user experience. The latest Android
version of Dolphin is now compatible with both HTML5 and Flash. Also, the better HTML5 support coming
with the new Chrome Webkit could help the browser deliver more
smoothly web apps and web games experience.

Innovation and International

MoboTap, the company behind Dolphin Browser could be boiled down
to several characteristics, like innovation and international,
Yang said.

Innovation is one of the down-to-earth principles of Dolphin, the
company creatively introduced the gesture browsing function, for
instance, you can draw a pattern (like a letter G or Y) to jump
to a certain site (Google or Yahoo).

As for international, the company is one of the few Chinese
companies with a Valley-style. It’s San Francisco office gained
attraction among top students from Stanford, UC Berkley and so on
while a vast majority of its early-adopters are those outside of
China.

A Browser that Understands You

Yu Zhou, the product head of the company said that the new
Dolphin is evolving to a brilliant “housekeeper” that understands
you. For example, under normal circumstances, some functions are
in hiding until they are triggered to come to light by a user’s
interactions with the browser.

The brilliant design echoes another one of the company’s
principles: Browser should gain better understanding about human
being.